Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-13

tioa: large apples anu peaches, Aueoio
grapes and other fruits OF the vineyaru
were everywhere in profusion, put apovs
and over and around all was coin-large:
magnificent yellow corn. pop corn--cofn n ol
all complexions, color and shade. ohe
looked, admired and then looked again
The displays were relevation even to the
nrodncers themselves. Old farmers and
their wives, olasped hands md as tears OF
a i,niration trickled down their furrowed
cheeks, their faces beained with pride MS
they al zsd the triumph they had helped
accomplish in turning the broad prair'es OF
the Northwest into the most fertile gardens
of the world. Strangers from abroad were
moved with rapture on first seeing the ar
t,st,c exterior OF the Corn Palace, bnt when
their eyes rested upon the magnificent pro-
ducts Of the soil, they gazed IN open NOUN
wonderment, and almost inauiibly the
words fell from their lips, 1t beats any
thing ever saw.-eyer dreamed Of.
The morning of the Second day OF the
Jubilee dawned bright and propit'ous, and
the sun peeped over the eastern HORIZON
with a glad smile Ms it nature herself was
proud Of her products, and the Corn Pai-
ace. During the night each incoming train
brought in its load OF passengers, ana the
crowd was sweled by day and night until
| fully 1000 strangers were to be seen upon
the streets or in the palace. During the
week 81, 900 strangers must have seen the
| palace.
The feature of the second day was the
grand characteristics parade, representing
| Sioux City In 1854. 1t was a scene rsalls-
tic in degree to the old pioneers OF the
| Northwest TO whom these scenes OF enriy
days were familiar sights, and, TO hear
them tnlk here und there among the crowd
only here and there, for thoy have ielt
the euge of the scythe of the Father OF
Iime-there was u tone that told OF the
| 81 .niticance of Aud lang syne.' They
suid that, outside OF the police and the mu-
sicians, it was all lust as natural as life. '
And for the younger generation too, the
| thousands on the streets, in these rude suS-
gestions of by-gon nge--an age gone
never TO return again, save in tradition,
memory, romnnce--there was absorbing
interest. Cheers and laughter herulded
the parade, and great crowJs followed eag-
er!y after il.
FIRST came q platoon of police. and,
Just after was the X. P. band with its iuil
strength. And when the column WIS fully
made up, then cams the UNIQUE sight of q
large band OF Indians, Omahas, Sioux
and Winpebagos, to the number of about
2uO. About seventy five of the Indians
were mounted. They were in full war
pant and decked ous with feathers, skins
| Of wild animals, bright-colored prints and
| gaudy cloths, and with faces smeared with
| vermillion, they were sight to behold.
| Uttering war whoops rs they rode
and brandishin. their weapons there
which in 1854 was one of terror to the ad-
yenlurous settlers OF the Northwest. Be-
hind the troop of mounted warriors cana
the remainder of the band in wagons
all heaped full of younger Indians, squaws
| and papooses, the women md their chill
dren, too, in gala day attire. II may be
doubted whether any in the throng OF
people better enjoyed the entertainment
than these Indians whe were SO prominent
| a feature of 1t. The men and womsn both
were less rsticent than common and chatted
jolllly as they rode along And the little
copper colored children gaxed with wide
open mouths at the decorations and sights
at every hand, showing how child life is
much the same the wide world over. One
Indian wag made sport for everybody, by
M nm ng the tone apd gestures ei the
man who always rides with the circus in
parade and tells she people that there will
be free exhibition OF rope walking Mt the
show ground when the parede is over.
Another Indian was loudly cheered when
he raised up little 2-year- old pappoose
and Let it with its tiny hand hold the reins
that guided the team, the little thing laugh
| ing with elee. Another of the Indians, q
warrior ON horseback, put everybody under
lasting obligations by ever and anon giving
| forth The genuine, old fashioned aboriginal
war whoop, us he rode along, and they
| cheered him Tor it heartily. and swore he
vas ga dandy" He was j. faith, and a red
painted customer one would not want to
meet alone out on the prairies in the
| stffties."
Then, as the Indian band sped on and
passed out OF view, there came, most ap-
propriately, the signs of advancing ciyili-
z.tion, the representatives of the vanguard
OF the mighty army which drove out the
red man ana made his hunting ground a
corn field, the greatest, richest in the world.
| And then to make the thug more binding
they have at last set up Palace to tho
Corn King at ou1 City, to which, as if in
fate's deep sarcasm, they have invited back
the Indians as guests.
The pack train followed close upon the
Indians heels six ponies benring burden
of furs and other ancient spoil, going to
| the trading post and conducted fhither by
a genuine trapper who spent many year
among the Indians and who can speak
| their language. He was clad in buckskin
and looked the frontiersman tnat he has
been in earlier days.
Here came the stage coach, not nm imita-
ton but the genuine vehicle, drawn by four
horses, while Tom Parrot, the second old
est stage driver in these parts, held the
ribbons in tip-tep style. The stage had
been packed and loaded by the American
| Express company, which furnished mes
senger and two guards. Beside tho driver
sat friendly Indian.
/ The emigrant train of the fkties followed
next. The train is vouched to be so perfect
by old timers that it seemed to turn back
the shadow on times dial and to be Just
passing through as In the dnyE of old.
There was the spectacle of the old FASH
ioned wagons, covered over with canvas,
drawn by oxen, and filled with the house,
hold effects, the working to,ls, the small
possessions of the pioneer. Behind the
wagon was the never failing box hung on
and over it the spinning wheel and vener-
able split -bottomed chairs. Behind othei
covered wagons the family COW was led.
Tne rear of another held crate in which
were chickens and ducks, the latter eve,
and anon catching the inspiration OF the
jubilee and quaeking n salute TO oil KING
Corn. One luckless way farer had broken
down wagon wheel, and had slung it by
the wagons side aud supported the axle
on o pole; and he was brayely headed
i westward.
Inc following are few Oh the lnscrlp-
tions on the canvass of the wagons:
stSiou1 City or Bus."
eve come from old Missouri, and all th,
, way from Pike"
Good by New York, we are bound for ou,
City"
cook stove at Sergeant Butts"
,, Westward, hol Sioux City or bust"
farewell to Vermont and New York state
too. We may emprate 10 hell some day, bu
, never back to you"
The next picture was specially realistic
TO Sioux City eyes--a freight train, bount
, for tae Black Hills camps. 1t was no il
, lusion, either, or the immense vans hat
, seen service there. Three great vans
+ lashed together in true frontier style, an,
piled full of freight, were drawn by 81
| mule tennis. The driver guided them will
q single line, and the bells upon their har
ness jngling cheerily as they moved slowl,
along, not SO much a reminiscence ms
true survival of the prairie life. The can
vus bor, fhe inscription of "Eyans & Hor